Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
- Hannah Arendt
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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
- Ausonius
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- William Blake
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
- William Blake
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To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
- Alexander Chase
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A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
- Alexander Chase
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More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
- Alexander Chase
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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
- Alexander Chase
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When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
- Alexander Chase
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
- William Congreve
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- Quentin Crisp
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
- Marlene Dietrich
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- John Dryden
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As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
- Gerald R. Ford
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
- Thomas Fuller
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas Gandhi
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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God will forgive me. It's his job.
- Heinrich Heine
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I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
- Chaim Herzog
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy
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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
- George MacDonald
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When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
- Bernard Meltzer
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
- Olin Miller
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
- Hannah More
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Forgiveness is the final form of love.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
- Emo Philips
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
- Alexander Pope
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
- George Bernard Shaw
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When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
- Lewis B. Smedes
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You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
- Lewis B. Smedes
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It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
- Lewis B. Smedes
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For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
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It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
- Lana Turner
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
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Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
- William A. Ward
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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
- Jessamyn West
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde
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